Group: Defective by Design/Day Against DRM 2019/Free Culture Educational Books
Introduction
More and more electronic version of books get imposed on students to follow a class. Many of such books comes with DRM, which also forces students to run nonfree software. Paper books has no such restrictions, however book publishers can decide not to publish new versions of them anymore.
This page attempt to list electronic books that have no DRM, along with their license.
Free licenses for manuals are also essential for freedom as they enable to adapt the book, and redistribute it.
We hope to eventually move this to a more central resource.
Books and repositories of books
Link | Topic | Class | Country | Schools using it | Associated homework | License | How to contribute | Comments |
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Math 105 - Math In Society - Open Textbook | Maths | liberal arts majors | Portland, USA | Seem to be made specifically for liberal arts majors in the Portland Community College | ? | Mix of creative commons, including:
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Math in Society | Maths | liberal arts major | USA? | Washington State faculty, other | cc-by-sa | Send an email to the author | ||
opentextbookstore | Many topics | College, Other? | USA, Other? (the books are in English) |
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cc-by-sa, other? | ? | ||
Computer Science without a computer | CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. Free activities for classroom or home. | /!\ Nonfree (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) | probably impossible (nonfree) |
List of repositories (also) containing books
We keep an up-to-date list of links on the DRM website: If you missed a link on the page or list here on the wiki, share it with us.
- Archive.org - Free eBooks, textbooks, etc;
- Project Gutenberg - A virtual library of over 60,000 free eBooks;
- Europeana - A lot free public domain books from Europe;
- Digital Public Library of America - +35.000.000 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States;
- Open Library - +1000k libre books;
- Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Bahia - Free Books, Audiobooks, etc;
- Add repositories you know about here